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The Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, EVC/CEO of the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, Dr. Aminu Maida, has reaffirmed the Commission’s committedness to transparency and accountability wrong the sector.
The EVC spoke astatine the 93rd telecoms user parliament, TCP, astatine the NCC’s Communications and Digital Economy Complex, Abuja connected Thursday.
The 93rd Telecoms Consumer Parliament was
themed “Optimizing Data Experience: Empowering Consumers done Awareness
and Transparency successful a Consumer-Centric Telecom Industry.”
The EVC noted that the taxable was timely, as
internet usage has go indispensable to regular life, adding that the relation astatine the NCC is to not lone guarantee accessibility but to heighten work transportation for consumers.
He noted that implicit the past 2 decades, the telecommunications scenery successful the state has transformed from basal dependable services to high-speed information that connects, informs, and powers innovations.
“With the rollout of 3G, 4G, and present 5G, we’ve seen Nigerians adopting societal media, e-commerce, online banking, and more,” the NCC’s Chief enforcement said.
“The instauration of 3G networks successful the mid-2000s marked the opening of this shift, enabling basal browsing and email.
“The leap to 4G
LTE brought faster speeds, enabling video streaming, online gaming, and a
myriad of integer activities. Now, with 5G promising adjacent faster speeds and
lower latency, caller frontiers are opening for innovations specified arsenic astute cities,
autonomous vehicles, and the Internet of Things, driving further demand
for data.
“Today, arsenic information depletion grows, fueled by integer advancements, we indispensable code user concerns implicit information depletion and billing transparency.
“Globally, DataReportal notes determination are present implicit 5 cardinal net users, with
Nigeria unsocial accounting for 132 cardinal connections.
“Nigerians walk an
average of 4 hours and 20 minutes connected societal media daily, acold supra the global
average, underscoring however profoundly embedded integer enactment is successful our
lives.
“In 2024, Nigeria’s regular information usage averaged 336 gigabytes per second,
marking a 39% summation from the erstwhile year—a wide denotation of the
data-driven manner galore Nigerians lead.
“Despite this, galore consumers consciousness their information depletes faster than expected, echoing a sentiment I perceive often.
“Nigeria isn’t unsocial successful this; different countries, similar Eswatini, are besides moving to code akin user concerns about
data usage.
He said the Commission’s efforts successful analyzing user complaints, revealed data
depletion and billing issues arsenic apical concerns.
“In response, we directed Mobile Network Operators and ISPs to behaviour audits of their billing systems,
which reported nary large issues,” helium said.
“However, perceptions persist owed to two
main factors: (1) the interaction of high-resolution devices and improved technologies connected data
use and (2) the complexity of relation tariffs.
“With the advent of 4G and 5G, arsenic good arsenic devices with ultra-high-definition
screens, information depletion has people increased.
“For example, while
viewing a photograph connected Instagram mightiness person required lone 100 kilobytes of information 5 years ago, today, with precocious camera resolutions, a photograph tin devour betwixt 2 to 4 megabytes erstwhile opened connected Instagram.
“According to Tech Advisor, an online assets that offers tech reviews,
spending an hr connected Instagram tin acceptable you disconnected an mean of 600 Megabytes of your data, portion streaming platforms similar YouTube would acceptable you disconnected by astir 3.5 to 5.4 Gigabytes per hour.
“Improved technologies spell beyond their acquisition outgo to our pockets, they besides travel astatine a outgo to data. Because they person amended surface resolutions, they
consume higher prime media that consumes much data.
“This is the aforesaid for
our expanding integer habits: according to DataReportal, the world’s net users are spending little clip watching television; the mean regular tv viewing has fallen by implicit 8% successful the past 1 year.
“These viewers are now
spending much clip connected their telephones, tablets, and astute TVs streaming programmes that they would antecedently person watched connected broadcast
television.
“Recognizing these challenges, the Commission, successful collaboration with major
operators, launched a Joint Industry Campaign connected Consumer Awareness on
Smarter Data Usage.
“This media campaign, spanning radio, television,
newspapers, and SMS, aims to amended consumers connected effectual information management.
“The Commission believes that an informed user is simply a better-equipped
consumer, starring to a clearer knowing of information depletion and
reducing misconceptions astir information depletion.”
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